Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1887-03-03

CLEVELAND, Feb. 24
The emphasized quality of Cleveland a
q city is its delightful home life. w,
are a diversified assemblage of freehold
ers scattered all the way from Brook
Ign to Newburg and covering an ares
| of twenty-six and a third miles, Nearly
every man of us can sit under his own vint
and fig tree and snap his fingers at rent col
lectors and all evicting constabularies. W.
entertain all our visitors in the same way by
first showing them the great stone viaduct
thrown across river and fat to connect the
east and west sides, by driving them out
Euclid avenue to Wade park and Lake View
cemetery and then by giving Them turn
| through half a hundred residence streets
beautified on either side by wide lawns, busy
fountains and sturdy forest trees.
Cleveland is a pearl on the banks of the
blue Erie and the wayfarer who tarries here
in the months of June or September will tell
you so. Every homestead on the north or
nabob side of Euclid avenue is almost a
plantation. A regiment of soldiers can drill
on the lawn and pitch their tents in the back
ward. The mansions are of stone and brick,
with gables great and small and dormer win
dows between Here is tower, there is a
poetical angle and yonder is polished pillar,
a picture in itself. Tall trees with snraading
branches line the walks and drives and throw
long shadows when the sun goes down. Oc-
casionally an American ivy, crimson
leaved and purple berried, trails over a
wall and loses itself on the other side Happy
children frolic in the grass and girls in white
play lawn tennis with their best young men,
Such, in brief, is the Wow in summer In
winter there is a transmogrifcation, and the
tinkle Of sleigh bells and the chatter of fleet
hoofs are heard in the broad thoroughfare,
while the robins and katydids have sought
and found warmer situation.
The average Clevelander is an ardent wor-
shipper at the shrine of nature. He dwells
among birds and flowers and he walks by the
side of running waters. Moreover he basks
in the shade of seven parks, containing in ali
nearly ninety-t three acres of wood and lake.
and yet he yearns for more. In the early
spring time he plants grass seed in every I'M
occupied spot, he buys lawn mower and a
reel of garden hose, and then he cuts and
squirts and squirts and cuts, morning, neon
and night, until his habitation blossoms like
the rose and his hands take on the callous of ia
coal heavens. If he receives a moderate
salary, say $1,000 a year, he main
tains horse and phaeton and he
lives better than the New Yorker
who gets twice his pay. In August he goes
to Chautauqua for a fortnight, wanders
about that goat pasture until he thinks he is
happy and then returns to Cleveland re-
freshed, as he declares, both in mind and
body. If he can afford it he spends the
heated term abroad or at the seashore, and
the biting months of winter near the Gulf of
Mexico or on the islands in the south At
lantic.
Besides our other qualities we are a COM
munity of cheap ivers Our beefsteak but
ter and bread are butchered, churned and
baked at our very doors. The cackle of the
boastful hen can be heard in the suburbs and
the uninteligible howl OF the huckster, fresh
from the pastoral regions beyond, resounds
in our back streets as seasons come and 90
The adroit sixpence seldom escapes our vi Il |
liant care, and if it does, there is hard chase
you may well believe. We attire ourselves in
furs and silks and support a half dozen |
fancy dry goods establishments, we load our /
shelves with fine books until the sellers there |
of wax exceedingly fat, and vet we haven't a |
first class grocery store in all the city! We |
are too highly civilized to think much of eat
ing. A baker informs me that a wealthy |
and well known citizen called at his shop the |
other day and ordered an eight cent |
loaf of graham bread. At noon the (
citizen was summoned east by a tele-
gram and at 2 o'clock the mistress of
the household came down town in her
carriage and countermanded the order. The
master had gone away, she said, and no other
m"mber of the family could tolerate I'M
!. ri broad Haro 10 - |
Cleveland economy, and by virtue of it we
rear tall buildings and live in sumptuous
mansions. Another opulent old chap is boss
and butler in one. After breakfast he iingles
MS keys and unlocks the store room The
,ook comes forth from her retreat of pots
and pans and files her daily requisition.
Sugar, butter, flour and fruit are measured
and weighed with the incest care, the door is
'losed, the keys hid away and then the gov
'rnor is driven by a man in livery to his place
If business.
A bachelor can live elegantly in Cleveland
IN 81, 500 ayear. He can be housed and fed
II fashionable neighborhood for $40 a
week. His horse can be maintained at the
leorest stable for half that sum, and he has
$40 remaining for clothing and incidental
expenses. Pleasant cottages of wood, in
vide, shady streets can be purchased for
3 900, and finely appointed house can be
ecured for double that amount. All the
Houses are back from the street, with grass
md trees before them and another stretch
# Sward behind them. II a man
asn't the ready money he can buy
roof to cover his head on credit and
ave it taken away from him by some warm
earted land shark if he chances to miss a
'avment.
Dur rich people confine themselves to four
cts only-Euclid, Case, Prospect and
.ilson. The East End, however, is the
enter of our civilization and toward it we
alam at sunset. 1t is truly delightful SPOT
0 live upon. All the streets, and there are a
reat many of them, are level, grassy and
rched over with oaks, naples and elms.
hese men of moderate means erect beauti-
al homes and plant their grounds in flowers
I ornamental shrubbery. Charming little ]
tages can be hired for $500 year, and the
hildren OF poor men can gambol OH the green
nd take on the color of haymakers. Clerks
n 81 200 salary can live like gentlemen.
I'll tapes and ribbons in the day
nd hear Browning discussed in the
vening. Over the way are two colleges.
Adelbert, named and endowed in honor of
onn hays brother-in-law, who died wears
go at Yale, and Case School of Applied Sci .
nee. Wade park and Lake View cemetery
re free to all with their romantic glimpses of .
'ndscape and their diversified drives and
'inding walks
We are, indeed, a provincial people, but
here are 22O,OO0 of US within the municipal
" and we don't care a fig if we are pro-
lnciaL We fill our houses with the art
ores OF the east, we coax nature until it
lossoms at our door, we send our machinery
no export our ideas to the remotest regions :
the earth, we are frugal and Intellectual